If there is a color for which Farrow and ball is best known, we would make a good guess that it would be’Setting plaster‘ Long before the current trend for raw plaster and lime-washed walls, the color Favorites had the brilliant idea to create a shade that mimics the freshly applied and dried plaster look that is so popular. It’s the perfect pink, it reacts brilliantly to all kinds of light and – somewhat confusingly if you’re thinking of using it in your own home – it can look quite different from room to room.
‘Setting plaster There is an uncertain pink named after the blushing walls that we often admire in the newly plastered. houses,’ explains Joa StudholmeJ is Farrow & Ball’s Color Curator and the brains behind their most popular paints. ‘It works in any aspect of the space, but it has an especially attractive glow in a south-facing room. The inclusion of a small amount of yellow pigment makes it feel soft and timeless and incredibly easy to live with, this color makes no demands on us, it whispers rather than shouts and gives us a welcoming embrace. It is best used on both walls and ceilings, to achieve the ultimate in lightness and prevent the eye from being drawn to an uncomfortable contrast with white.’
